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Krohn Andersson, FredrikORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-5825-7042
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Krohn Andersson, F. & Frihammar, M. (2023). As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 16(4), 373-392
Open this publication in new window or tab >>As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden
2023 (English)In: Journal of War & Culture Studies, ISSN 1752-6272, E-ISSN 1752-6280, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 373-392Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopted to show how the illusion of actual, nondifferential identities is underpinned by a hypostasized reification of AHD. Based on the analysis of how gender has been actualized within official and informal heritagizations, the central discussion concerns the purported benefits of heritages and heritagizations from below, often articulated within critical heritage studies literature. It is argued that both official and informal Cold War heritagizations construct a naturalized gendered logic of protection, with the consequence that security policy issues regarding protection and military violence are placed in a nonnegotiable, extrapolitical sphere.

Keywords
heritage, identity, authorized heritage discourse, heritage from below, Cold War
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-213367 (URN)10.1080/17526272.2022.2156177 (DOI)000898971800001 ()2-s2.0-85144297798 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-01-10 Created: 2023-01-10 Last updated: 2023-11-17Bibliographically approved
Frihammar, M., Krohn Andersson, F., Wendt, M. & Åse, C. (2023). I kalla krigets spår: hot, våld och beskydd som kulturarv. Göteborg: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>I kalla krigets spår: hot, våld och beskydd som kulturarv
2023 (Swedish)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Det förflutna används ständigt för att ge mening åt nuet. I kalla krigets spår skildrar framväxten av ett nytt svenskt militärt kulturarv. Här visas hur minnen och lämningar från en tid fylld av rädsla och säkerhetspolitiska spänningar får nya innebörder när bunkrar och nedlagda militäranläggningar omvandlas till museer, lyxbostäder och spännande besöksmål.

Genom fältbesök vid en rad militära kulturarvsplatser runt om i Sverige har författarna undersökt vilka miljöer, föremål och känslor som idag får representera kalla kriget. De visar hur dåtidens hemligheter, hotbilder och militärfordon både blir kittlande och fascinerande inslag i kulturarvet och förmedlar idéer om trygghet och beskydd.

Här tas ett nytt grepp på kulturarvsfrågor genom att minnesskapande sätts i relation till säkerhetspolitik. Utifrån kritiska kulturarvsstudier och feministisk teori diskuteras den nationella gemenskapens gränser och vilken roll som genus och sexualitet har i berättelserna om hot och försvar.

I en demokrati måste frågor om militärt våld alltid genomlysas och diskuteras. Med denna utgångspunkt granskas kulturarvets betydelse för förståelsen av hot och säkerhet. Boken uppmanar till reflektion om hur historien skrivs och om vad som krävs för att skapa trygghet.

I kalla krigets spår är ett resultat av ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt. Författarna är forskare vid Stockholms universitet och har skrivit boken tillsammans.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2023. p. 244
Keywords
kalla kriget, kulturarv, bunker, säkerhet, politik
National Category
Ethnology Architecture Political Science Gender Studies
Research subject
Ethnology; Art History; International Relations; statskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-216519 (URN)10.22188/kriterium.45 (DOI)978-91-7061-429-3 (ISBN)
Projects
Genus och nation i kalla krigets spår: Skapandet av ett svenskt militärt kulturarv
Available from: 2023-04-18 Created: 2023-04-18 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved
Frihammar, M. & Krohn Andersson, F. (2022). Breaking the seal, keeping it real: On authenticity and masculinity in engaging with bunkers. Ethnologia Scandinavica, 52, 183-201
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Breaking the seal, keeping it real: On authenticity and masculinity in engaging with bunkers
2022 (English)In: Ethnologia Scandinavica, ISSN 0348-9698, Vol. 52, p. 183-201Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Keywords
Cold War, Heritage, Nostalgia, Bunker, Authenticity
National Category
Ethnology
Research subject
Ethnology; Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-209921 (URN)000852951400011 ()
Projects
Making a Military Heritage. Gender and Nation in Sweden’s Cold War History
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 1372606
Available from: 2022-09-28 Created: 2022-09-28 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved
Wendt, M., Frihammar, M., Krohn Andersson, F. & Åse, C. (2022). Kalla krigets kulturarv: historien som äventyr och njutning. In: Andreas Linderoth (Ed.), Svenskt sjöförsvar 500 år: människor, politik och kulturarv (pp. 173-183). Karlskrona: Marinmuseum, Karlskrona
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kalla krigets kulturarv: historien som äventyr och njutning
2022 (Swedish)In: Svenskt sjöförsvar 500 år: människor, politik och kulturarv / [ed] Andreas Linderoth, Karlskrona: Marinmuseum, Karlskrona , 2022, p. 173-183Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlskrona: Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, 2022
Series
Marinmuseums årsbok ; 2022
Keywords
kulturarv, militärhistoria, genus, säkerhet
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Ethnology; International Relations; Art History; Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-212864 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P18-0210
Available from: 2022-12-14 Created: 2022-12-14 Last updated: 2022-12-15Bibliographically approved
Frihammar, M., Krohn Andersson, F., Wendt, M. & Åse, C. (2021). Kalla kriget som njutning och ideal. Dagens arena
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kalla kriget som njutning och ideal
2021 (Swedish)In: Dagens arenaArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Känsloläget i försvarsdebatten har höjts, inte minst av Försvarsmakten själv. Frågan är inte längre om utan när kriget kommer. Den nya retoriken åkallar känslor förknippade med kalla kriget. En hotfull historisk period som idag används för att rättfärdiga försvarspolitik och signalera trygghet, skriver fyra forskare som tittat närmare på läget.

National Category
Other Social Sciences Other Humanities
Research subject
International Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94643 (URN)
Note

Puplicerat: 20 februari, 2021.

Available from: 2021-02-25 Created: 2021-02-25 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Krohn Andersson, F. & Frihammar, M. (2020). Man caves: Om bunkrar som manliga trygghetszoner. In: Malin Rönnblom, Ida Linander, Linda Sandberg (Ed.), (O)tryggt? texter om makt, plats och motstånd: (pp. 124-148). Stockholm: Premiss förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Man caves: Om bunkrar som manliga trygghetszoner
2020 (Swedish)In: (O)tryggt? texter om makt, plats och motstånd / [ed] Malin Rönnblom, Ida Linander, Linda Sandberg, Stockholm: Premiss förlag, 2020, p. 124-148Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Premiss förlag, 2020
National Category
Art History Ethnology
Research subject
Art History; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-191850 (URN)9789189077157 (ISBN)
Projects
Making a military heritage: Gender and nation in Sweden's cold war history
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ P18-0210:1
Available from: 2021-04-01 Created: 2021-04-01 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Storm, A., Krohn Andersson, F. & Rindzevičiūt, E. (2019). Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre: The Making of Atomic Heritage in Chicago, Moscow and Stockholm. In: Heike Oevermann, Eszter Gantner (Ed.), Securing Urban Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization (pp. 111-129). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre: The Making of Atomic Heritage in Chicago, Moscow and Stockholm
2019 (English)In: Securing Urban Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization / [ed] Heike Oevermann, Eszter Gantner, London: Routledge, 2019, p. 111-129Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

During and immediately after the Second World War, physicists and engineers in several countries worked intensively and in competition to develop nuclear weapons and to control the chain reaction creating nuclear energy. An experience of urgency and a sense of revolutionary future promise permeated the activities and largely outweighed the risks as they were calculated at the time. As a result, small experimental reactors were built at research institutes or universities relatively close to city centres and densely populated areas—the key localization factor being the physicists’ own geography. This chapter focuses on three of the early pioneering urban reactors, located in Chicago, Moscow, and Stockholm, which were all symbols of national prowess as humanity was entering the nuclear age, and later became objects of heritage processes. We scrutinize the early operations as well as the making of atomic heritage, through the conceptual lens of the ‘security theatre’. The concept highlights the relationship between, on the one hand, calculable risk and security, and on the other hand, perceived risk and security. We argue that, overall, the security theatre displays reversed characteristics if comparing the establishment period with the processes of heritagization in the way that the calculable risks were initially high but downplayed, while subsequently being low but exaggerated. This tension between calculable risk and perceived risk, we suggest, forms the key to the attraction of contemporary atomic heritage. This chapter is based on historic and contemporary written and visual sources, together with interviews and on-site visits.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2019
Series
Routledge Studies in Heritage
Keywords
Heritage, Heritagization, Urban reactors, Atomic heritage, Security theatre, Nuclear power, Nuclear firsts
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-177284 (URN)10.4324/9780429053559-8 (DOI)9780429053559 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-12-20 Created: 2019-12-20 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Nolin, C. & Krohn Andersson, F. (2019). Välfärdssamhällets vardagslandskap. Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift (76), 5-7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Välfärdssamhällets vardagslandskap
2019 (Swedish)In: Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0349-2834, E-ISSN 2002-3812, no 76, p. 5-7Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170420 (URN)
Available from: 2019-06-30 Created: 2019-06-30 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Krohn Andersson, F. (2018). Mediating Public Cultural Policy: Buildings, Bills, and Films as Governmentality. In: Sonya Petersson, Christer Johansson, Magdalena Holdar, Sara Callahan (Ed.), The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection (pp. 261-283). Stockholm: Stockholm University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mediating Public Cultural Policy: Buildings, Bills, and Films as Governmentality
2018 (English)In: The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection / [ed] Sonya Petersson, Christer Johansson, Magdalena Holdar, Sara Callahan, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018, p. 261-283Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This article examines how the supposedly new public cultural policy in Sweden during the 1960 and 1970s was mediated and materialized in a number of forms. The cultural policy encompassed both a contradiction between the emphasis on a broadened concept of culture and a more narrow understanding of cultural practices, as well as a conflict between elements of power and control in policymaking, and assertions on the necessarily free character of the cultural domain. Departing from three cases, in form of the government committee report Ny kulturpolitik 1972 and the government bill on cultural policy 1974, the building Kulturhuset in Stockholm 1974, and the information film Jämlikhet – för handikappade? 1973, an approach of governmentality is in conjunction with perspectives of inter- and transmediality implemented in order to analyze how the potentially inherent conflicts and contradictions of the cultural policy were enacted in these various mediated forms.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018
Series
Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, ISSN 2002-3227 ; 4
Keywords
Media theory, Media aesthetics, Media history, Intermediality
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162467 (URN)10.16993/baq.k (DOI)9789176350676 (ISBN)978-91-7635-064-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-11-27 Created: 2018-11-27 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Krohn Andersson, F. (2017). Heritagizations of nuclear power plants as architecture. In: : . Paper presented at Nuclear Legacies: Community, Memory Waste and Nature, Södertörn, Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16, 2017.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Heritagizations of nuclear power plants as architecture
2017 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
Architecture
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152336 (URN)
Conference
Nuclear Legacies: Community, Memory Waste and Nature, Södertörn, Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-16, 2017
Available from: 2018-01-31 Created: 2018-01-31 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved
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